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... Cæsar , towering to divinity , The frighted Indians with his thunder awed , And claimed their homage , and commenced a god I flourished all the while in arts of peace , Retired and sheltered in inglorious ease ; I who before the songs ...
... Cæsar , towering to divinity , The frighted Indians with his thunder awed , And claimed their homage , and commenced a god I flourished all the while in arts of peace , Retired and sheltered in inglorious ease ; I who before the songs ...
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... Cæsar fought and Cato bled for you . All - Souls ' College , Oxon . EDWARD YOUNG ' Tis nobly done thus to enrich the stage , And raise the thoughts of a degenerate age ; To show how endless joys from freedom spring , How life in bondage ...
... Cæsar fought and Cato bled for you . All - Souls ' College , Oxon . EDWARD YOUNG ' Tis nobly done thus to enrich the stage , And raise the thoughts of a degenerate age ; To show how endless joys from freedom spring , How life in bondage ...
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... Cæsar's arms your genius had prevailed ; And the muse triumphed , where the patriot failed . AMBR . PHILIPS PROLOGUE BY MR . POPE . SPOKEN BY MR . WILKS . To wake the soul by tender strokes of art , To raise the genius and to mend the ...
... Cæsar's arms your genius had prevailed ; And the muse triumphed , where the patriot failed . AMBR . PHILIPS PROLOGUE BY MR . POPE . SPOKEN BY MR . WILKS . To wake the soul by tender strokes of art , To raise the genius and to mend the ...
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... Cæsar , ' midst triumphal cars , The spoils of nations , and the pomp of wars , Ignobly vain , and impotently great ... Cæsar's less than Cato's sword . Britons , attend : 1 be worth like this approved , And show you have the virtue to ...
... Cæsar , ' midst triumphal cars , The spoils of nations , and the pomp of wars , Ignobly vain , and impotently great ... Cæsar's less than Cato's sword . Britons , attend : 1 be worth like this approved , And show you have the virtue to ...
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... Cæsar , Mutineers , Guards , & c . MR . BOWMAN . WOMEN . MARCIA , Daughter to Cato , LUCIA , Daughter to Lucius , MRS . OLDFIELD . MRS . PORTER . SCENE , A large Hall in the Governor's Palace of Utica . ACT I. - SCENE I. PORTIUS ...
... Cæsar , Mutineers , Guards , & c . MR . BOWMAN . WOMEN . MARCIA , Daughter to Cato , LUCIA , Daughter to Lucius , MRS . OLDFIELD . MRS . PORTER . SCENE , A large Hall in the Governor's Palace of Utica . ACT I. - SCENE I. PORTIUS ...
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Page 182 - Tis not a set of features, or complexion, The tincture of a skin, that I admire: Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.
Page 49 - The victor's shouts and dying groans confound, The dreadful burst of cannon rend the skies, And all the thunder of the battle rise. "Twas then great Marlborough's mighty soul was proved, That, in the shock of charging hosts unmoved, Amidst confusion, horror, and despair, Examined all the dreadful scenes of war ; In peaceful thought the field of death surveyed, To fainting squadrons sent the timely aid, Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage.
Page xvii - To strew fresh laurels, let the task be mine, A frequent pilgrim at thy sacred shrine ; Mine with true sighs thy absence to bemoan, And grave with faithful epitaphs thy stone.